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Food Defense Plan Survey Results

FSIS began measuring the status of industry’s voluntary adoption of food defense plans via annual surveys in 2006. The survey questions determine whether each FSIS-inspected establishment has a functional food defense plan (i.e., the plan is documented; measures are in place to address outside security, inside security, personnel security, and incident response; the plan was tested in the last year, and the establishment reviewed their plan in the past year).

In 2010, the voluntary adoption of food defense plans was included as a performance measure in the FY2010-FY2015 USDA Strategic Plan. The target is for 90 percent of establishments to have a functional food defense plan by 2015. FSIS also includes the voluntary adoption of food defense plans as a performance measure in its FY2011-FY2016 Strategic Plan. The USDA and FSIS Strategic Plans can be found at: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/strategic-planning.

The ninth annual food defense plan survey was completed in July and August 2014. The FSIS establishments surveyed included meat and poultry slaughter and processing establishments, processed egg products plants, and official import inspection establishments. Overall, 84 percent of all establishments surveyed have a functional food defense plan (up from 83 percent in 2013).

2014 Food Defense Plan Survey Results

Establishment Size

Percent of Establishments with a Functional Food Defense Plan

Meat & Poultry Establishments

Processed Egg Products Plants

Import Inspection Establishments

Overall

Large

98%

90%

N/A

98%

Small

91%

95%

N/A

91%

Very Small

77%

88%

N/A

77%

Total

84%

93%

89%

84%

As shown below, the adoption of functional food defense plans has consistently increased since initiation of the survey in 2006.